Alexandre GiGi Paiva OLD SCHOOL Jiu Jitsu | Submissions, Passes & Sweeps From Alliance Co Founder

Alexandre GiGi Paiva OLD SCHOOL Jiu Jitsu | Submissions, Passes & Sweeps From Alliance Co Founder
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In this video filmed around 1997, Alliance Jiu jitsu co founder, and world jiu jitsu champion, Alexandre Paiva also known as GiGi, demonstrates several guard passes, submissions and guard sweeps. GiGi does this with the infamous Alfonso Viking, the owner of Krugans Kimonos. GiGi does this demo with Alliance founder Romero Jacare Cavalcanti translating and leading. This was filmed in the legendary Strike Jiu jitsu academy.
Alexandre “Gigi” Paiva is a figure of extreme importance in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu‘s history, not only was he one of the founding members of the multiple world champion team Alliance, he also coached several important grapplers, such as Fernando “Tereré”, Leonardo Leite, Mitsuyoshi Hayakawa among many others, including his own son Vitor Genovesi.
Alexandre Paiva was born in March 4, 1967, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Paiva started practicing in 1983 at the famous Jacaré Academy in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, with Rolls Gracie black belt Romero Cavalcanti. At the Jacaré Academy, he met a few BJJ fighters such as Fabio Gurgel, Leonardo Castello Branco, Roberto Traven, Fernando Gurgel in a team that would later make history on the jiu-jitsu mats.
Right from the start, Alexandre Paiva fell in love with the sport, he had great instincts which made the classes all the more enjoyable. Seeing that jiu-jitsu was something he really liked, Paiva started training religiously, to the point it became almost an obsession. Gigi would spend an average of 8 hours a day on the mats becoming good friends with one of the only training partners that also kept this training rhythm, Fabio Gurgel. Alexandre would not only train in Ipanema with Cavalcanti, but he would also take the time to go every Wednesday to the Botafogo area in Rio de Janeiro to train at the Gracie Academy, where Rickson and Royler Gracie were teaching.
In 1988, Alexandre Paiva’s career suffered a major set back. He injured his back with serious damage to his spine, an injury that took Alexandre off the mats for 2 years. After the much needed surgery and recovering process, Paiva returned to the mats in time to get his black belt awarded in 1991. It was also around the same time that Alexandre Paiva started dedicating more time to his career as a coach. Not only did he maintain his position as an assistant coach at Jacare’s place, he also started coaching at the “Clube Federal”. In 1992 he opened an academy called “Academia Strike” together with Roberto Traven and Francisco Canepa. In two years they found great success, and their talent pool was deep, but in 1994 they re-joined forces with Cavalcanti and Gurgel (who ran the ‘Master Academy’) and formed a coalition to fight the bigger teams such as the Gracie Barra Team and the Carlson Gracie Academy in big tournaments, they called this the Alliance Academy.
In 2009 Alexandre was the leader of a movement that paid homage to master Helio Fadda (nephew of Oswaldo Fadda), from the great Fadda lineage. The ceremony was done at the “Casino Municipal” in Paracambi, Rio de Janeiro.
Alexandre Paiva is also the father of another great Jiu-Jitsu competitor, Mr. Vitor Genovesi. A world-class fighter with several international titles.
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[@praeceptor3303]

Gigi is a stud. A phenomenal Jiu-Jitsu artist and person.

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yep and professor of many legends

[@scottjean5271]

I bought his book. Very informative. As an aikido practitioner..i want to learn jiujitsu too

[@RiccardoAmmendoliaBJJ]

Oh cool. Gigi's really great instructor

[@scottjean5271]

@@RiccardoAmmendoliaBJJ gigi and machado brothers are my favorite bjj practitioners.